Date: 2017-03-19

Senate president, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has identified regional cooperation and partnership as the only solutions to the myriad of challenges facing the African continent.

A statement signed Saraki's special assistant on public affairs, Mohammed Isa, copy of which was made available to news men said the senate president made the charge in a keynote address at the opening session of the Crans Montana Forum of Africa and South Cooperation for Africa’s Development holding at Dakhla, Morocco.

"I believe that the kind of political leaders that can help our continent in the 21st century are those who are able to think in regional terms and operate in a global context" He noted that "the contagious nature of poverty-driven social unrest would in effect suggest that the challenges that we face.